CEO Global USA Executive Education program features training from respected executives with the professional experience to really impact your career.

Previous or Present TWTS MentorsHenry Ho- co-founder and chief business developer of Field AgentMichael Dodd- Associate Buyer- WalmartClint Cunningham- Replenishment Manager- Tyson FoodsJeff Posey- 14 years of experience working with Chemical Engineering in China.Iris Posey- Extensive Cross-cultural training and experience, lived and worked in foreign countries for over 18 years.Sarah Grace- Years of Experience in Merchandising, currently Associate Product Manager at Dayspring Cards.Arkom Chollopand- PhD from Colorado State University, 10 years at Tyson foods, currently in commodity risk management.Housseine MHeimid- Sr. Financial Business Analyst in Walmart.Chad Manning- 14 years experience with Walmart, currently Walmart's Global Sourcing of Sporting Goods and Automotive.Jordan Difani- 5 years of experience working with Walmart Vendors. Senior Account Manager at The Harvest Group.

PREVIOUS AND/OR POTENTIAL PROGRAM PRESENTERS

Henry Ho biographical sketch

Henry Ho is a local entrepreneur, co-founder and chief business developer of Field Agent, which is a local and fast growing business that leverages the power of crowdsourcing and mobile technology around the world to provide real-time business information to large corporations. Henry has over 30 years of business development experience, including almost 20 years with business development in the Asia Region for Procter & Gamble. He is also closely involved in numerous businesses in Northwest Arkansas and around the world.

Kevin Pate biographical sketch

Kevin Pate worked 13 years in a Certified Public Accounting firm as an expert in the areas of accounting, tax, auditing, and business consulting. He then worked for 7 years as the Chief Financial/Operations Officer for two organizations that each had annual receipts over 1 million dollars US. Kevin currently serves as the Executive Director of an international organization, where the mission is to train and equip business leaders worldwide in the best business practices.

Under his leadership, over 130 international training events have been carried out in over 30 nations. He graduated from Baylor University, in Waco, Texas. Kevin Pate serves as a financial advisor on the board of several organizations. He has been married to his wife, Diana, for 25 years and they have three children.

Chad Manning biographical sketch

Chad Manning is an experienced senior manager at Walmart having worked the company since 2002. He is responsible for all Global Sourcing for Walmart Stores US Sporting Goods and Automotive. Chad has extensive experience in China and overseas through his business experience with Walmart and has regularly trained up and coming leaders in leadership both in China and around the world.

Elaine Kung biographical sketch

Elaine Kung’s career at AT&T spans 28 years, from technical R&D at Bell Labs and business and marketing in a wide range of telecom products and services to service delivery and operations. She has achieved several millions of dollars in revenues and delivered significant profitability initiatives. Her recent career moves went from wire line to mobility services and fiber broadband services, leading the program management office. She has been elected numerous times to AT&T's high-potential programs and received AT&T-sponsored executive education training at Columbia, Cornell and Wharton.

Elaine graduated from Cornell with B.S. in Electrical/Materials Science Engineering, from Princeton with M.S. in Electrical Engineering. Elaine also holds many leadership roles in giving back to the community at AT&T, at her church, at Cornell and Princeton, such as teaching and mentoring young people, interviewing college applicants, sponsoring the Princeton Prize in Race Relations scholarship.

Elaine has been known to have extensive networking skills in all circles of influence. Elaine recently received the WOC STEM Career Achievement Industry Award. Elaine has been married to Dominic since 1986. AT&T just relocated them from NJ to Dallas. They have two grown children, working in NYC and San Diego.

Mr. Randy Welsch biographical sketch

Mr. Welsch is an entrepreneur and currently the President of Jibu, L3C. Jibu is pioneering a new for-profit businessmodel to deliver safe water to the developing world in a way that addresses root problems of systemic poverty and breaks dependency on western aid. Previously he was CEO of Master Solutions, a software/system engineering company that developed advanced space-based solutions. Throughout his career he has led and managed complex enterprises in many diverse leadership and entrepreneurial roles in the corporate and philanthropic sectors.

Mr. James Yu biographical sketch

James Yu is a life coach, cultural transformation consultant and business development advisor. He has a passion for multi ethnic community development and serves on the boards of numerous organizations that are serving and developing communities around the world. James is from Los Angeles California where he currently lives with his wife and family.

Mr. Dave Anderson biographical sketch

Express Leadership University, University President Anderson Leadership Solutions West Point Graduate and Decorated Combat Veteran20 Years with Fortune 50 Company15 Years in Leadership PositionsHighest Sales Leadership Award 4 Times in 8 Years Top 9% of Company Leaders- Gallup Employee Survey MBA - Honors in Marketing Dave Anderson has been training and speaking more than 15 years on topics that include leadership, productivity, strategy and sales.

Dr. Allan Thompson biographical sketch

Dr. Thompson was a leadership professor at ETBU for six years, developed students in leadership and community service. Dr. Thompson currently holds a PhD in Leadership Studies and is considered an expert on Servant Leadership and Values Based Leadership.

Mr. Ming Chaing biographical sketch

Mr. Ming Chiang is the former Vice President of Texas Instruments. Mr. Chiang started his professional career in Texas Instruments, Dallas, as testing engineer to support worldwide manufacturing sites. After building his bandwidth and experience through various job positions such as product engineer, design engineer, product engineering section manager, and product engineering branch manager, he started the mixed-signal design group to address the emerging mixed-signal market in 1985. Through 15 years of tenacious team efforts, mixed-signal design group has become the leader in the industry. Mr. Chiang was responsible for all the advanced process technology development, mixed-signal product development and computing infrastructure with over 1000 mixed- signal design employees in 15 different global design sites. Texas Instruments is currently one of the leading suppliers of broadband communication products in semiconductor industry.

Mr. Craig Holt biographical sketch

Mr. Holt is Vice President of Qualis Health Company. Prior to Qualis Heatlh, Mr. Holt was the VP responsible for leading the sales team, development and execution of the company’s business strategy, and major account management for 21 Tech. Before 21 Tech, he was a Business Development Executive within the Pacific Northwest for Sierra Systems. Prior to joining Sierra Systems, Craig was the National Practice Director for Business Transformation Services with Unisys Corporation. He started with Unisys in 2002 and led the National team that brought Business Transformation Services to the State and Local Government Sector. Craig has provided Consulting Services to a wide variety of clients include the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Washington D.C. - Department of Public Works, State of New York - Department of Taxation and Finance, City of San Jose (CA), City of Seattle (WA), City and County of San Francisco (CA), State of Alaska House Finance Committee, Colorado- Department of Transportation, and Auditor General of British Columbia.